Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural People at a local or low level rather than at the center or upper levels of an organization or movement. Often used with the.
- noun plural The lowest or most basic level of an organization or movement.
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- adjective Of, or relating to
people orsociety at thelocal level; of thegrass roots
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- adjective of or involving the common people as constituting a fundamental political and economic group
- adjective fundamental
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Examples
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I think you know the term grassroots lobbying, which means Washington-based lobbyists reaching back into the districts to get people to write in on behalf of the causes that they advocate.
The Lobbyists: How Influence Peddlers Get Their Way in Washington 1993
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Its preferred strategy is to lie on the state level long and hard what it calls the "grassroots".
John Stoehr: The Problem With Conservatives Isn't Ideology -- It's Lying John Stoehr 2011
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Its preferred strategy is to lie on the state level long and hard what it calls the "grassroots".
John Stoehr: The Problem With Conservatives Isn't Ideology -- It's Lying John Stoehr 2011
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After the state GOP, it did admit to having a camera in the crowd thanks to an anonymous tip, but denied organizing what it called a grassroots event, also telling me, "Doggett owes us and them an apology for calling the crowd a mob."
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ACOSTA: That may explain why the Republican National Committee has just launched what it describes as a grassroots Web site.
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Its preferred strategy is to lie on the state level long and hard what it calls the "grassroots".
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com John Stoehr 2011
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Plan B includes formation of TheCainSolutions.com, which he described as a grassroots effort to bring government back to the people.
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Cain told supporters he planned to continue his efforts to influence Washington and announced "Plan B" - what he called a grassroots effort to return government to the people.
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Kilgore argues that the implication of this is that there are two models of bipartisanship when it comes to health care reform: Congressional bipartisanship, and what he calls grassroots bipartisanship.
Daily Kos 2009
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Presumably, this approach to the grassroots is coming from the top.
Sam Graham-Felsen: What Gladwell Got Wrong: Beyond "Like Button" Activism Sam Graham-Felsen 2010
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The term sharing economy has many synonyms and near-synonyms, like gig economy, peer economy, collaborative economy, grassroots economy, and mesh economy.
The Sharing Economy Was Dead on Arrival | JSTOR Daily Catherine Halley 2019
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Rogain for politicians
April 9, 2009